[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add the ability to rebuild packages.

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Hello Thomas,

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 11:30 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> We are currently using Buildroot in such a development mode, and
> indeed face the problems you are solving with this patch. So: thumbs
> up!
> 
> But it is not only 'rebuild' that is useful. The conditions under
> which the configure command of a certain package originally ran, may
> have changed. A similar thing is true for patches: you may have
> updated the patchfile. In such cases, generic reconfigure and repatch
> targets are very welcome, together with the rebuild target you already
> made...

xxx-reconfigure should be fairly straightforward since no
TARGET_NORECONFIGURE variable would be needed, just remove the stamp and
make xxx-configure.

Would xxx-repatch be effectively a re-extraction?  That is, the patch
has been applied, then changed and so can't be applied in reverse so
you'll have to erase the extracted package and re-extract, patch, ...
So in effect it's a "make xxx-dirclean xxx" operation, right?